.::: How I installed gDesklets-0.26.1 on Slackware 9.0 :::..
(updated and revised for use with Slackware 10.0 & gDesklets-0.30pre)
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I spent over 4 hours trying to get this installed and working. After trying out numerous different packages, I had to go from source. This walkthrough will cover installing from source, using checkinstall to make your packages for easy removal, and provide as much information as possible incase you're not the most talented Linux user. This is not guarenteed to work! I've kept my Slackware 9 setup with mostly fresh install settings, so if you installed Slackware with personal settings etc, you may have issues. Although, if you did that, you probably won't need this walkthrough. All download links are active and working as of 04/28/2004. If they are not when you try this, please use Google
and find it.
All this was done from /home/user/
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well i just spent about 8 hours going over all this and working out the kinks for the latest version and i can honestly say that it was worth it. however there's a couple of changes that i'll outline for you, bearing in mind most of what the origional poster remains the same however there are a couple key areas that have changed....
- perry
Download and install the following:
#0. checkinstall-1.5.3-i486-2.tgz
- wget
ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-cur...5.3-i486-2.tgz
- installpkg checkinstall-1.5.3-i486-2.tgz
#1. XML-Parser-2.34
- wget
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-modul...er-2.34.tar.gz
- installpkg XML-Parser-2.34.tar.gz
#2. PyGTK-2.2.0
- wget
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sourc...k-2.2.0.tar.gz
- tar zxf pygtk-2.2.0.tar.gz
- cd pygtk-2.2.0
- ./configure --prefix=/usr
- make
- checkinstall
- cd ..
#3. PyORBit-2.0.0
- wget
http://freshmeat.net/redir/pyorbit/3...t-2.0.0.tar.gz
- tar zxf pyorbit-2.0.0.tar.gz
- cd pyorbit-2.0.0
- ./configure --prefix=/usr
- make
- checkinstall
- cd ..
#4. gnome-python-2.0.0
- wget
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sourc...n-2.0.0.tar.gz
- tar zxf gnome-python-2.0.0.tar.gz
- cd gnome-python-2.0.0
- ./configure --prefix=/usr
- make
- checkinstall
- cd ..
#5. swig-1.3.19
There are two methods to get this puppy, one is to try the
http://www.swig.org way, the other is required if for some reason your
make chokes on an obscure bug. If you can get it to compile with it's directions, skip to the next step. Otherwise do it the way I fought it out, using the old
"if it isn't broke, don't fix it" approach.
- wget
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/...3.19-5.src.rpm
- rpm2tgz swig-1.3.19-5.src.rpm
- tar zxf swig-1.3.19-5.src.tgz
- cd swig-1.3.19-5
- tar zxf swig-1.3.19.tar.gz
- cd SWIG-1.3.19
- ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec_prefix=/usr
- make
- checkinstall
- cd ..
#6. gDesklets-0.30pre
- wget
http://pycage.de/download/gdesklets/....30pre.tar.bz2
- tar jxf gDesklets-0.30pre.tar.bz2
- cd gDesklets-0.30pre
- ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec_prefix=/usr
- make
- checkinstall
- cd ..
#7. Create your Display and Sensors directories:
It's at this point things start to get a little blurry... you can do this step but it should not be required given the link I'll give you in step 8.
- mkdir /usr/local/share/gdesklets_sensors
- mkdir /usr/local/share/gdesklets_displays
#8. Download some Displays and Sensors.
Goto
this page and follow directions from there.
Do
Not do it the way the origional poster of this thread did it. Just get
the clock going first...
#9. Add gDesklets to your Startup Sessions.
This step is still valid however, a
gdesklets start is required to get things going in 30pre.
- Goto Applications > Desktop Preferences > Advanced > Sessions
- Click on Startup Programs.
- Click on Add.
- Type gdesklets into the 'Startup Command:' box, click OK.
- Click Close.
- Log out of X.
- Log back into X.
- Start up a terminal.
#10. Install the Sensors.
Follow the
advice from these people on installing new sensors for 30pre.
#11. Start gdesklets.
$shell> gdesklets start
#11. Configure your Displays.
Once all are loaded and in their spot, right click on each display and goto Configure Display. Play around with all the settings until you find what you like, then set the others to look the same.
I'll make some more refinements after I check the rest of it out. For now I'd just like to thank the origional poster even though he's jumped ship (something about
SuperKaramba or some other kde thingy...)
I've gone thru this listing and i might be incorrect on a couple tar parameters but i'm sure your smart enough to handle anything like that.
Hope it works out for you!
- perry